History
Aimoto Station opened on 25 March 1899 as a station of the private Hankaku Railway when its line was extended from Sanda to Sasayama (now Sasayamaguchi). The Hankaku Railway was nationalised in 1907, and the station became part of the JNR Fukuchiyama Line in 1912. Goods handling ended in 1960 and the station became unstaffed in 1973. With the privatisation of the JNR on 1 April 1987 it joined West Japan Railway Company, and the Kansai-area "JR Takarazuka Line" nickname came into use in 1988. It was assigned the number JR-G65 when station numbering arrived in March 2018. Two opposed ground-level side platforms remain from a former two-platform, three-track layout.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Notes
On 10 October 1901 Hankaku Railway began running seasonal matsutake-gathering trains between Osaka and Aimoto, a tradition that ran each autumn for decades.